Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.